Your tax money (transformed into that stimulus spending) went to fund “Dance Draw,” also known as interactive dance software development. Just one more of those essential government services made possible by taking your money from you.

How much of your money?

In this case a mere $762,372.

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte got the stimulus funds to help develop a computerized choreography program that its creators believe could lead to a YouTube-like “Dance Tube” online application.

Gee, there’s hardly anyone out there fiddling with YouTube or stuff like that. The government must have seen an urgent need to intervene.

“This will allow choreographers to explore interactive dance without always having a full cast of dancers present,” the grant says. Heck, it even eliminates the need for many real human beings. Followed to its logical conclusion, maybe this Obama stimulus will eventually remove the need for people altogether, if only it can take all peoples’ money. Is this a wonderful age, or what?

Mark Landsbaum is a Christian husband, father, grandfather and journalist who has written for a living for 43 years, ever since discovering he had no particular talents. He can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn, and in the archives of the Orange County Register, where he wrote a column for 10 years.

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